EIKOH HOSOE is one of the most important 20th-century Japanese photographers, best known for his collaborations with Yukio Mishima and Tatsumi Hijikata, the founder of butoh dance. He has had solo exhibits at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and, in 2011, The Art Gallery of New South Wales. BETTY JEAN LIFTON (1926-2010) was the author of 20 books for children, many of them based on Japanese folklore. She grew up in Ohio, and lived for a time in Japan and Hong Kong, before settling in New York and Cambridge with her husband Robert Jay Lifton. Among her books for adults are two collaborations with Eikoh Hosoe about Hiroshima as well as three concerning the plight of the adopted child.
"Although best known as an adoption advocate, during the 1960-1980s Lifton wrote more than 20 books for children and young adults, including Return to Hiroshima and A Place Called Hiroshima , which both dealt with the effects of the atomic bomb on children and were created in collaboration with the Japanese photographer, Eikoh Hosoe. While living in Japan during the 1960s with her husband, Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, a psychiatrist and author, Lifton wrote books that focused on the Japanese experience... Lifton introduced the American public to Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who is called the Anne Frank of Hiroshima." School Library Journal
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